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Geoffrey Grigson, ed.
The Three Kings: A Christmas Book of Carols, Poems and Pieces, with an Account of the Legend.
Published Bedford: Gordon Fraser, 1958.
[No ISBN].
Binding: hardback, stitch bound; printed boards withdustjacket.
Size: 136×211×10mm.
Page count: text 77pp; plates 21pp.
Main language: English (Middle English selections given lightly modernised).
Overall condition fair: the dustjacket on this copy is worn, and rather ragged on its edges and corners; the book itself looks in good order overall, previous seller’s sticker fixed inside the front board and a previous owner’s gift inscription on the front endpaper, but the main text appears to be free of marking.

This item £8.00
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(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

Weight without packaging: 230g.

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Contents: 26 selections from a range of English literature, medieval drama through to Eliot and Yeats, illustrating the development of the legend of the Magi.
Appendice: List of sources for the illustrations.

Illustrations: colour frontispiece plus 20 pages of plates and 1 text illustration, all monochrome
Maps & plans: no

Introduction: 21pp
Notes: infrequent, at foot of page
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: difficult words glossed at foot of page
Bibliography: a few references
Index: no

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